BRIMM103- Economic Sustainability

After completing this course, the participants will be able to: ● Understand the term ‘sustainability’ applied to mining and its limitations ● Define what a ‘common’ is and be able to discuss key commons that mining impacts ● Gain an appreciation of regional impact versus global economic benefit ● Discuss the potential time scale of liabilities from a mine ● Look at the questions to ask to minimize the impact of a mine ● Understand the questions to ask to tie sustainability into economics ● Apply ‘shadow accounting’ to work toward more sustainable decision making.